MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 5, 2020-- February 5, 2020 -- Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ: CMTL) announced today, that during its second quarter of fiscal 2020, its subsidiary, Comtech Solacom Technologies, Inc., which is part of Comtech’s Commercial...

After an 18-month legal battle, Pinellas County settled a lawsuit with contractors over poor construction in the Public Safety Complex — an $81 million fortress built to withstand a Category 5 hurricane. Last week, the county withdrew the lawsuit and reached a $1.1...

The Public Safety Center is being constructed in Maple, on a site in Community Park near the Regional Aviation and Technical Training Center. When it is completed in early 2021, the facility will house all of Currituck County’s public safety departments under one...

WORCESTER – The Worcester City Council meets Tuesday night, February 4. Ahead of each City Council meeting, ThisWeekinWorcester.com [TWIW] will provide a preview to help keep readers informed of the on-goings of the city’s governing body. Each preview will highlight...

Nearly two years since the mass shooting at an Antioch Waffle House when police were dispatched to the wrong restaurant, Nashvillians are still awaiting answers on any changes made at the Emergency Communications Center. When attorney's deposed the 9-1-1 director, she...

LE MARS, Iowa (KTIV) - The Plymouth County Communications Center received over 19,500 calls in 2019 with 6,000 of those being 911 calls. Now they are planning to add another dispatcher to the team to help with future calls like that. According to Plymouth County...

Omaha, NE — They’re the voice that could be your lifeline on the worst day of your life. 911 dispatchers are calm. They’re quick thinking. And they’re stressed. Really stressed. The phone rings and right away someone is crying for help. Michelle Hatch can hear this...

Franklin County Emergency Services Telecommunicator Brady Strite is the county’s Employee of the Month for January. County commissioners announced Strite’s selection last week. Strite, a county employee since March 2019, was one of 10 nominees for January’s...

NG9-1-1 RFP Considerations Document Now Available
1 hour ago   (0 Comments)Posted by: Chris NussmanThe NENA Request for Proposal Considerations Information Document is intended for 9‑1‑1 authorities that have made the decision to issue an RFP for the purpose of procuring all or part of a Next Generation 9‑1‑1 system. This document recommends a structure and content to guide a project team that has been given the charter to develop an RFP. It anticipates that other work has been done and decisions have been made that support the development of the RFP. Implementation of this document will assist 9‑1‑1 authorities in developing an RFP to procure elements of an NG9‑1‑1 system, including PSAP Functional Elements, NG9‑1‑1 Core Services, GIS data and services, and Management Information System (MIS) data collection and reporting.

MOSES LAKE — “I can’t understand you when you yell into the phone, I need you to breathe,” a dispatcher at the Multi Agency Communications Center, also known as MACC Dispatch, says calmly into the receiver. A caller, breathless, has just dialed 911 to report a violent...

Reaching a new milestone in an ongoing effort to modernize the 911 call center serving Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, these military installations are the first nationwide that can provide emergency assistance through text messages. According to Benjamin...

Chief Deputy Eric Watson has been named the new deputy administrator of Public Safety for Charleston County, officials said. He will oversee Emergency Medical Services, the county’s 911 consolidated dispatch, Emergency Management and the Awendaw Fire Department once...

WINDHAM, Maine — Dispatchers at the Cumberland County 911 Center said 30 to 40 percent of its emergency calls are misdials. “I would say we have about five to ten a shift,” said dispatcher Maria Jensen. Even with those numbers, she and the rest of the dispatchers are...